A news conference has been scheduled for Wednesday morning by Toronto lawyer Tim Danson concerning the death of Canadian ski-cross racer Nik Zoricic, who died in a racing accident at the World Cup event in Grindelwald, Switzerland on March 10.

A news release sent to the media on Friday afternoon said only that a news conference was being planned and said that further details about attendees and topics would be forthcoming on Monday.

On March 10, Zoricic crashed off a jump near the end of the race and landed in safety netting on the course’s boundary. He was airlifted to hospital in Interlaken, Switzerland, but was pronounced dead at 12:35 p.m., local time. The International Ski Federation said “severe neurotrauma” led to the skier’s death.

Zoricic’s death has sent a shock through the ski community and to those who knew the skier. It came less than two months after Sarah Burke died in a training accident in Salt Lake City in January.

“It’s devastating,” Gartner told reporters last month. “We look at all our athletes as members of our family, so it’s quite hard.”

Danson is also representing former NHLer Steve Moore in a $38-million lawsuit against Todd Bertuzzi and Orca Bay Hockey Ltd., the company that owns the Vancouver Canucks (now known as Canucks Sports and Entertainment). Moore, who played for the Colorado Avalanche, was punched by Bertuzzi and suffered three broken vertebra, a concussion, and never played hockey again in an incident in March, 2004.